The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

am pecrelary OF war, IN order to re-
spond to the request of Senator Co.krel
chairman of the Senate select committee
to investigate the work of the depart
ments, has directed thorough investiga-
ton OF the work Of each bureau.
A PENSION has been granted Peter Scbu-
maker, formerly private in COMPANY d.
Fourth Wisconsin cavalry, on the ground
OF insanity. He gets So per month and
arrearages, aggregating S12, 500, one of
the biggest pension payments ever made.
GENERAL Z. M. B. YOU'VE, of Georgia.
late the Consu[General at st. Peters burg.
is prominently mentioned for appointment
TO the Austrian mission. General Youny
himself states, however, that he is not an
applicant for the position.
EDWARD NJ. NEWMAN, in the employ Of
Michael Levinson, wholesale clothier, New
YORK, was arrested on the 3lst, charged
with defrauding the firm of over s75, 900
by means Of false entries and misusing
the checks of the firm Newman was taken
to the Tombs.
"A TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR mail robbery as .
tonished the New York post-ofice officials
on the Both. A clerk named Clark was
finally conferred upon as the thief, and he
was arrested on tae 3lst, the missing
package being found later and finally
Clark confessed, and was sent to Jail
Born the ocean cable lines OF the Ben
nett-Mackay Gable Company are broken.
and the company is doing its busln es s
over the French line. The breaks will
soon be repaired
SECRETARY ENDICoTT has issued cir
cular calling for information relative to
the condition of business in the War De-
partment, the business methods of the
bureaus and other matters required by
Senator Cockrelrs committee.
Two men, engineer and fireman, were
killed in railway collision on the LIST
near Corinth, Miss.
JOE TALBoTT, one of the most notorious
burglars on the continent, was captured
in New York City on the lst
Some Of Congressman Springer's friends
have recommended him to the President
for the vacant Southern Illinois judg e.
ship.
QUEEN VICTORIA was received with
much pomp and ceremony at Cannes,
France, on the LIST.
PRoF. RICHARD A. PRoCToR, the astron-
omer is going to remove from st. Joseph,
Mo-, to Florida.
lr develops that the latest attempt on
the Cars life was made by an army Off
Ger, VINO fired at but missed the monarch.
MARTIN V. MONTGOMERY, of Michigan,
has been appointed Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the District of Col
umbia.
"BUcKsKIN JoE' 81. S. Wirks) is at Fort
Worth, Tex, perfecting Panhandle
colony scheme. He is still determined to
settle in Oklahoma.
AFTER serving ten months of years
Imprisonment sentence, at Blackwelrs
Island, Herr Most, the Anarchist leader,
was released on the 1st and returned to
New York City.
THE BILLY Kissane" sensation at New
York and San Francisco is undated.
''Billy's" lawyer failed to get his old in
dictment nolle pressed at New York.
"Billy's" Identity has not yet been given
to the pu bile
THE Pension Office, on the LIST, issued
LOCO pension certificates This is said to
be the largest number ever issued in one
day by the bureau.
The New York Times announces that
Jake Sharp will be the next "boodlern
brought to trial by District Attorney Mar
tine. The case will doubtless come on in
May before Judge Barrett.
THERE are now before the General Land
Office 36. l05 cases awaiting adjudication
During the past week week 26S land at patents
were approved.
MRS. FOLSOM has returned from Mchi-
gan, and is in retirement at Oakview. Mrs.
Cleveland drives out each day and spends
an hour with her mother
THE President has recognized ArturoP
Gushing as Consul of the United States of
Mexico for Boston, Mass, and its district,
and Isaac T. Smith, Consul-Geueral of
Siam at New York.
DURING the week ending March &c II!
final homestead entries were approved by
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office; 354 final timber culture entries: Al
final desert land entries, and 15l cash
timber land entries, making a total of
l,2GS land patents approved. There are
80, 100 cases pending before the office.
LEWIS STEWART, colored, was hanged at
Laurens, 5. C., on the lst, for the murder
Of his wife.
THE coinage of the minis during the
month Of March was IS, 1876, 9O6, of which
S3,O2O,3S) was in standard silver dollars.
Mrs. CLEVELAND recently received
call from the former bride of the White
House, Mrs. John Tyler, who is visiting
her son, Dr. Lachlan Tyler, in Washing.
ton. Mrs Tyler was introduced by Mrs.
Villas.
POSTMASTER PEPPER of Boscobol, Wis.
was arrested on the lst by the United
States marshal on charge of misappro.
priating funds OF the Government TO the
extent of S4OJ. In default of bonds for his
appearance in court he was taken to Md
son to await trial.
COLONEL ROBERT G.. INGERsoLI was adj.
nitted to practice at the bar in the State
IF New York, on the lst. before the gen
eral term of the Supreme Court. When
ne was asked to be sworn he refused. and
affirmed in place thereof. He then signed
the roll
LEGAL proceedings have been instituted
against the captain of the bark AdaM,l.
more, which collidel with the British
ship Kapunda, off the Brazilian
coast, January 20, when the latter was
sunk and over three hundred persons
drowned. The captain of the Ada Mel
more is charged with infringing on the
regulations to prevent cOllisions